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It begins with a fictitious online review about the company and one of its brands, or an online posting with false information about the CEO or another officer. As inside counsel, you don’t know the source of this information, but you do know that negative and lurid news travels fast....

Every year tens of thousands of highly-skilled workers, managers and executives enter the U.S. under the auspices of the L-1, which allows foreign businesses operating here—or national companies with an overseas presence—to fill open posts by reassigning qualified individuals already in their employ.

Evidence that the DC Cool tourism campaign was already underway can be found in trademark filing documents. This caught the eye of Joanne Ludovici, partner in the DC office of McDermott Will & Emery LLC and an expert in copyright, trademark and domain name acquisition.

Sources say that the plans for proposed changes have been in the works for a long time, and expect an announcement from FCC Chairman Tony Wheeler shortly, with a vote to enact the rules coming about a month thereafter.

The 2nd Circuit has recently attempted to clarify unpaid overtime claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and the court’s August ruling in Dejesus v. HF Management Systems Services only nails down what an unpaid overtime claim requires even further.